Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon. A personable young man with Hollywood good looks and a funny foreign name was getting his wavy, dark-blond hair cut. The barber struck up a conversation. "So," she inquired, "what do you do?" He replied that he worked with the local symphony orchestra. "Wow!" she exclaimed. "What instrument do you play?" Actually, he said, he was the conductor -- had she ever attended a concert? "Of course not," she said, and went back to cutting his hair...
From downtown Manhattan to the plains of Texas to the mountains of Bosnia, religious hatred can become a blunt instrument that ultimately destroys believer and nonbeliever alike...
...Everyone who has an instrument can show up and play," says Assistant Senior Tutor Christoph H. Luthy. "It turns into quite a frivolous thing...
Wicker, who is a fellow this semester at the Kennedy School's Barone Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, said, "the ideas that the American press is one big instrument that is liberal is not true." He said there are more important problems facing journalists today, including gender and race bias and the trend towards sensationalism...
...cleansing. The investigators reported that "daughters are often raped in front of parents, mothers in front of children, and wives in front of husbands." David Andrews, a member of the commission, who was at the time Ireland's Foreign Minister, said it was clear that rape had "become an instrument, not a by-product...